Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 September 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I agree with a lot of what Deputy McAuliffe said. People cannot conceptualise the spending on this bike shed. Listening to radio programmes and all the rest, people are talking about how much one could buy one for off the shelf. I understand Leinster House is a protected building and something has to fit in properly, but I do not think anyone could conceptualise that it would cost €336,000. The controls are some of the aspects. The piece I looked for was the business case and value for money - that value for money piece has to be known before a piece of work starts - and the location of the building. What will be useful on 10 October will be that we will be looking at a range of other spending from the OPW as well. It is necessary we see that because this is an example and we have to interrogate other spending. The OPW has primary responsibility here because this comes out of its budget and what we are looking at is following the money here.
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